50% off site-wide at CreativeLIVE [also $50 off 1-YR of Creator Pass]

CreativeLIVE is running another promotion, this one is running until the middle of the day on Tuesday (noon pacific I believe), and it is a price-you-see is the price-you-pay type of offer, with a built-in 50% off discount on all the classes they offer on their website… No coupon is needed for the 50% off sale, but a coupon is needed for the offer in the next paragraph…

On the other hand, if you are a fan of Netflix-style watching instead of digital-ownership, coupon code FEBCREATE50 gets you $50 off your first year of their Creator Pass, a 1-year prepaid subscription to almost all the classes they offer. There are some exceptions and restrictions however. The excluded classes are listed in the Exclusions page…

If you prefer totally free, you can watch [stream] for free the following classes on the following days as shown at their On-AIR page. Topics for this week include weddings, lightroom, logo design, podcasting, photoshop, graphic design, color, various business-related topics for creatives and mo(i)re…

February 18, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Starts 11am ET: Dell President’s Day doorbusters

Starting at 11am eastern today, the Dell Home website is going to be running President’s Day doorbusters. I do not have advance notice of prices and such, so YMMV on what will be offered and at which prices and things of that nature.

February 18, 2019 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With: ,

Monday: Lensbabies, Tamrac, Teradek, Etc [EU: various photo printers]

Monday is upon us and with it we have a new round of B&H Photo daily deals with a Lensbabies theme:

+ Lensbaby Trio 28 Lens with Filter Kit for Sony E for $160

+ LensBaby 50mm f/2.5 Sweet Spot Spark Lens for $80

+ Tamrac HooDoo 18 Backpack for $25 in four different color schemes

+ Teradek Bolt 500 XT 3G-SDI/HDMI Wireless Transmitter and Receiver Set for $1990

Meanwhile in the Land of Woot there iPhones at the Main Woot, Xtreme PRO action camera bundles ($28 to $45) in “Electronics”, HP Mini Desktops in Computers, Editor’s Choice selections in T-shirts and tibetan singing bowls in Clearance/Sellout [they could make for a nice photo test or something to use in your studio/etc/etc].

European daily deals
Then off we go to the other side of the pond where Amazon Germany is running a sale on various photo printers with prices ranging from 32 to 696 euro from Canon, HP, Epson, Brother. There’s also a few scanners and laser printers. A total of 18 items are participating in the sale. Yes, the 32 euro is indeed a printer, the Canon Pixma MG-2555S [PRO TIP: don’t put an “S” after a “5” in a product name!]

But that’s not all. They also have a sale on Nokia smartphones (3.1 for 169 and 7 Plus for 229 to 239 euro, a 27″ Acer Predator computer monitor, Anker, etc…

February 18, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

EU: 128GB Transcend microSDXC (A1, V30, C10) for 18 euro

Down go the prices! Amazon Germany is offering the new condition 128GB Transcend microSDXC card (A1, V30, C10, U3, UHS-I) for 18 euro with speeds UP TO 95MB/sec. This is not a lightning deal, so the price is not tied to a ticking clock…

Speaking of reasonable prices in the EU, they are also offering the 128GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC (C10, up to 80MB/sec) for 25 euro…

February 16, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Sunday: 8pk Watson AA rechargeables, etc

Sunday is here and with it the latest round of daily deals starting at B&H Photo with an 8-pack of colorful 2500 mAh rechargeable NiMH AAs going for $20. Two 4-slot clear cases are also included… Optionally there’s a combo offer, buy these with a 4-slot Watson charger for $28 total… The other two daily deals are a car charging kit and a Sennheiser exercise earphone…

At the Clearance [formerly Sellout] section of the Woot website there are offering various refurbished 11.6-inch Chromebooks for $100 to $110 in “Scratch & Dent” condition. Great if you want to have a “living room” type of a computer that can be used by everyone for casual web action that is more complicated than what a smartphone screen can handle.

At Amazon Germany there are some tech-adjacent items of potential interest in the storage (as in bags and such, not digital memory) kind. Especially if you are the type who likes to double-bag and triple-bag the most fragile or precious or expensive camera gear…

February 16, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

EU: Transcend USB 3.0 card reader (SD, microSD slots) for 7 euro

The best sellers among memory card readers at Amazon Germany at the moment is the black color scheme of the Transcend RDF5 USB3.0 Card Reader which has two slots, one for SD* memory cards, and one for microSD* memory cards. It goes for slightly more in white… It averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 1500+ customer reviews… You can buy as many as you like at the sale price…

February 15, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Friday: Ricoh Theta S 360-degree digicam for $250

Among the friday daily deals at Woot is the new condition Ricoh Theta S digital camera with its 360-degree thing, and 1/2.3″ sensor and f2 prime lens(e) and its one year Ricoh warranty. Limit up to ten per customer. Sale ends on Saturday at 1am ET or earlier if sold out…

February 15, 2019 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, ricoh Tagged With: ,

Weekend (B&H): Joby GripTight, RucPac pho gloves, Etc

Friday is upon us and it is the case with the B&H daily deals, their Friday edition runs for 48 hours, until Saturday at 11:59pm eastern:

+ Joby GripTight GorillaPod Video for $15

+ RucPac professional photographer gloves for $20 (two options)

+ Pioneer professional headphones for $470

February 14, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Pre-order new Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens

If Canon has something up for pre-order, of course Nikon must needs match it, so Nikon is offering for pre-ordering their brand new Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens for $2300. Pre-orders are available at Adorama and B&H Photo and Amazon herself… Obviously, a compatible Z camera is needed to best utilize this lens 🙂

February 14, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals, nikon Tagged With: , , ,

Ends Thur PM: 30% off Groupon coupon

Valentine’s day special at Groupon Local. Good until the end of Valentine’s Day in the central time zone [that’s FEBR-14-2019], coupon code FLASH gets you 30% off at Groupon Local. Local is where various photo print offerings reside.

Services can “absorb” this type of a discount but thin-margin electronics [eg (Physical) “Goods”] cannot, that’s why the “Goods” coupons are rarely more than 10% off…

The usual restrictions, limitations, etc apply. As always, be sure to read the terms/conditions of the various photo-print offerings since they are structured differently in terms of shipping and fees and such…

February 14, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

15% off your order with B&N online coupon

For Barnes and Noble fans [yes, they still exist], coupon code SAVE15 gets 15% off your entire order at the Barnes and Noble website. This is for the whole order, not just one item. Coupon expires Monday…

And if you happen to be near any of their B&M stores, their Coupons and Offers page has a printable coupon for 20% off a single item at their B&M stores…

Exclusions and restrictions apply for both online and offline sales…

February 14, 2019 Filed Under: books and magazines Tagged With: ,

400GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC (C10, A1) for $79

If your cameras or action cameras or smartphones or other devices take 400GB memory cards, as of the time of writing, Amazon herself is offering the new condition 400GB Sandisk Ultra micro SDXC (C10, A1) for $79 with free shipping. You can buy as many as you like [technically the limit is 20 but that’s more than enough for most people].

February 14, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,

Pre-order the new Canon RP portable mirrorless full framer

It’s full frame mirrorless party! Canon has reveled a brand new full frame camera in their new mirrorless R system, a more “portable” camera, named so with the “RP” name, as in an R-system camera that is P-ortable! Pre-orders start at $1300 for the body only which is bundled with an EF-to-RF adapter (EF lenses on the new R bodies). Also, for a limited time during the pre-order festivities you can get your choice of a free Canon EG-E1 extension grip [this is not a battery grip]. The extension grip is available in your choice of body color.

All the aforementioned are available for pre-order at B&H Photo with a late February 2019 availability estimate.

Note that in the two kit bundles you see over-there there-are [“-” to prevent a double “there there” in a sentence] two different 24-105 lenses. The $1699 kit comes with the EF [yes, EF] 24-105mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM lens, while the $2199 kit comes with the RF 24-105mm f4L IS.

These are also available for pre-ordering at Adorama and also by Amaozn itself [note that the kits at Amazon are a bit confused, so pay attention to which option you are ordering]

In Europe, Amazon Germany has two kit options, both bundled with the EF-to-R adapter since that opens up a lot of lenses for the new R cameras. The body only (with adapter) goes for 1500 euro, while the kit with the adapter and the RF 24-105mm f4L IS lens goes for 2500 euro…

February 14, 2019 Filed Under: canon, mirrorless deals Tagged With: , , ,

Thur: Dracast BiC OnC Lite for $40, iKan Remote Air, Etc

Thursday is upon us and more importantly, Valentine’s Day, where your love is measured by the size of the cuddly Valentine’s teddy bear and the number of flowers in the bouquet 😉 We also have a new round of B&H Photo daily deals with another quartet of offerings:

+ Dracast Camlux Pro Bi-Color On-Camera Light for $40

+ iKAN Remote Air Pro Wireless Follow Focus Single Motor Kit with Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Integration for $500

+ JARV 10,000mAh Wireless Charging Power Bank with LED Display for $22 in two color options

+ Kopul SDI-PPC Stereo Multimedia Passive Direct Box for $50
+ PS: I have no clue what this thing is ^_^

February 13, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Thur (EU): Sony sale: a7 II, a6300, a77 II, 50/f1.8 FE, RX100 IV, HX90, etc

It’s Sony time on Thursday at the Amazon Germany Gold Box with a total of eight Sony camera-related products as follows:

+ a7 II with 28-70 for 1142 euro
+ a6300 with 16-50 for 689

+ 50mm f1.8 FE for 169

+ a77 II body only DSLR for 799

+ RX100 Mark IV for 579 euro
+ HX90 superzoom (30X optical) for 276

+ two camcorders for 175 to 1019

Also part of the Thursday action are Lenovo tablets and a few laptops of various manufacturers, along with some TP-Link products

February 13, 2019 Filed Under: fixed lens cameras, mirrorless deals, sony Tagged With: , ,

EU: Tamron 70-300/4-5.6 Di LD Macro for 90 euro [C] or 100 [N/A]

If you are a fan of unstabilized zoom lenses, the new condition Tamron AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro is on sale for 90 euro in the Canon DSLR system and for 100 euro in the Nikon system (motorized) or in the Sony-Minolta A mount… Limit up to two units per customer at the sale price… This is not a lightning deal, so expiration time unknown… The Pentax K is not available…

February 13, 2019 Filed Under: dslr deals, tamron Tagged With: , , ,

Woot Garage Sale

Woot is having another Garage sale. Think of it as a Woot-OFF but it happens horizontally in time instead of vertically. Not a perfect analogy, so let me simplify it: all the sale items are offered up immediately instead of a new one every few hours. This causes the more desirable items to sellout quickly, so it is a bit of a lottery ticket like Woot-OFFs.

Under Electronics, they had the Canon EF 70-200/2.8L IS II for $1260 with a 90-day Woot warranty with limit one per customer but it was sold-out when I noticed this new sale.

Under Computers, there’s a handful of Kindle Paperwhite e-readers of various generations in Scratch and Dent condition starting at $35. Reading is magical with e-readers, if you are reading text-only or text-mostly fiction and non-fiction.Not ideal for anime or engineering books or photography books or books full of pictures and such, but for text-only they are magical. Because reading is fun-da-mental!

PS: speaking of Canon, now I have to get in the habit of writing “EF” in Canon SLR lenses since they have their new full frame miRRoRless system 🙂

February 12, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals

YMMV (Fry’s B&M): 20% off for first 25 customers twice a day

This is a very YMMV offer. IF you are physically near a Fry’s brick and mortar store, they are running a new type of a promotion so far this week. Twice a day, upon opening and at 5:30pm local time, the first 25 customers in line that mention the daily magic word (which can be found in their daily mailing list emails of course) get a coupon that is worth 20% off purchases of $299+ at the B&M store.

The Wednesday magic word is Get20Extra

Some products from some brands are excluded (Nikon, Sony, Samsung, Bose, LG, Tempurapedia) and of course gift cards are excluded. The maximum discount with the coupon is $1000, in other words, up to a $5000 purchase. If your purchase is over $5000 in eligible products, then you get a flat $1000 off discount.

PS: this post is also a traffic alert if your driving involves areas surrounding Fry’s B&M stores. Granted, it won’t be like Black Friday madness ~ probably.

February 12, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: ,

Wedn: Case CPL-106 bag, E-Image Tripod, Bescor Kit, Etc

Hump day is upon us once again, and the Wednesday round of B&H daily deals is this quartet of offerings:

+ Case Logic CPL-106 DSLR camera bag of medium size for $15
+ keep in mind that terms like “small”, “medium”, “large” are always relative 🙂

+ E-IMAGE EK60AAM Fluid Drag Video Head and Tripod for $149

+ Bescor FM256 Flexible Remote-Controlled Bi-Color LED Light Mat for $129

+ D-Link wifi/wireless kit for $150

February 12, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

Rokinon 12/2 NCS CS MF for $249 [E/m43] or $269 [X/EF-M]

Adorama is running a limited time promotion [they call them “snapshot deals”] on the new condition Rokinon 12mm f2 NCS CS MF lens for $249 in the silver color scheme in the Sony E and Micro Four Thirds systems and $269 in the Fuji X and Canon M systems. Meanwhile the black color scheme goes for $269 with free shipping in all four aforementioned systems…

February 11, 2019 Filed Under: mirrorless deals Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Tuesday: GigaPan EPIC PRO, Dracast, Etc

It’s a quartet of offerings in the Tuesday B&H Photo daily deals as follows:

+ GIGAPAN EPIC Pro Robotic Camera Mount for $596

+ DRACAST LED500 S-Series Daylight 3-Light Kit with NP-F Battery Plates and Soft Case all together for $480

+ Leupold 10×25 BX-1 Rogue Compact Binocular for $65

+ also Senal wireless mic system for $250

Of the other daily deals, no photo-related action at Best Buy, Woot or Amazon.de…

February 11, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals

KEH coupon: Buy More to Save More [up to 15% off]

KEH Camera is back with another coupon promotion, this time celebrating Valentine’s! It is the return of the “buy more to save more” promotion. Using coupon code BMSM2A you get a discount depending on your order total:

+ 15% off orders over $1000
+ 10% off orders over $500
+ 5% off orders under $500

Restrictions and limitations apply as usual. NEW items and “Like New” are EXCLUDED from this promotion. Leica is also excluded. Their shopping cart is the ultimate decider on what qualifies – add items of interest to your shopping cart and see what happens. You don’t need to signup/login to test the coupon!

The promotion expires on Tuesday FEB-12-2019 at 11:59pm eastern time…

February 11, 2019 Filed Under: storewide deals Tagged With: , ,

Mon: Sigma 35mm f1.4 DG ART HSM for $749 (C/N/A/P and E)

If lenses are kings, it’s the Return of the King at the Monday B&H Photo daily deals with a lens leading the way. It is the new condition Shiguma 35mm f1.4 DG ART HSM lens going for $749 with free shipping in five different systems. Yes, there are at least four young mirrorless-generation of photographers: Canon, Nikon, Sony A, and Pentax K. The lens is also available for Sony E… I don’t know if it’s foreshadowing or a bad omen, but the lens has …404 customer reviews as of the time of rating 🙂

There’s two more items in the B&H daily deals, the MeFoto GlobeTrotter (not from Harlem through) Air Travel Tripod going for $50 in your choice from five trendy/trending color schemes of the pastel-inspired kind. There’s also a TP-Link smart-something thing…

Of potential interest to EU shoppers in the Monday Amazon Germany Gold Box, it’s the Huawei P20 going for 399 euro, the P Smart+ [mayhaps they didn’t think of the giggle-inducing name in casual-speak english] for 219 euro, and the 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab A (T585) tablet with LTE going for 190 euro…

Meanwhile at the Woot website there’s yet another MacBook sale, some HP Pavilion desktops, and an Android blast from the past with an unlocked Droid Turbo 2 smartphone…

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: daily deals, sigma Tagged With: , , , , , ,

CreativeLIVE coupon: 50% off one class

This is a make your own sale type of a coupon promotion at Creative LIVE. Use coupon code 50OFF to get 50% off one class over there. The promotion expires before FEBR-16 at midnight. Unfortunately that’s what it says, so I don’t know if that means 11:59pm or 12:01am 🙂 Restrictions apply as usual…

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Dxo PhotoLAB 2 for $110

If you are a fan of the DxO software, they are running a Valentine’s promotion (in other words, it ends at the end of Valentine’s day, aka FEB-14), you can get the DXo PhotoLaB 2 software for $110 or the Elite version for $170…

Also part of the sale is the FilmPack 5 for $70 and the ViewPoint 3 for $70… The Elite editions of the aforementioned software cost more [as it is often the case with these type of things]…

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: apps and software Tagged With: ,

PSA: KEH Camera website remodel/redesign

You are not imaging things. The KEH website looks different indeed! That’s because there is a website remodel/redesign, and as per the rotating ticker on their site over there, they are actively looking for feedback on the new design, especially if you are having problems…

With so many viewports these days with desktops, laptops, 4K screens, AiOs, tablets, smartphones of all sizes, 2-in-1s, browsers of all sorts, etc, etc, etc, it’s a herculean task for a website design to cover all bases. Thus the request for feedback 🙂

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: website news Tagged With: ,

Dell’s Presidents Day Preview sale

Black Friday begins in September these days, so of course Presidents Day sales begin before Valentine’s. And Valentine’s sales begin before the SuperBOWL 🙂 Anyways, the Dell website is running a Preview sale featuring an assortment of laptops, desktops, AiOs, mortal computer monitors and UltraSharps, and some TVs for good measure…

But that’s not all. When you scan through the page you will also notice an Intel Optane promotion that gets you a $100 VISA gift card with the purchase of select systems.

What is Intel Optane? Wikipedia does not have a good page on it, but the search engines are your friend, here’s what Duck Duck Go finds… In case you are looking to do a “Seven Days challenge” like the Gizmodo journalist tried [via Techmeme]…

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: technology deals Tagged With: ,

CL: up to 60% off Fashion Photography classes

CreativeLIVE is running another limited time sale, this one gets you up to 60% off select Fashion Photography classes. The price you see is the price you pay.

If you are not fond of paying though, CreativeLIVE has you covered as well. You can watch for FREE select classes when they are streaming live at the ON-AIR LIVE page. There is a detailed schedule over there, with world premiers clearly marked… A variety of topics are coming up in the next week, from heavy wedding focus [it’s Valentine’s after all] to wine tasting. Wine tasting vs ISO comparisons, are they really the same thing? 😉

Speaking of world premieres, if you are a fan of bird photography, save the date! March 20 is the live free-to-watch world premiere of Frans Lanting’s “The art of photographing birds”. This classes will decidedly be more useful than my work-in-progress class “Bird Posing 101” 😉

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Free Tripod with select Nikon f2.8 zoom lenses

If you are a fan of Nikon-branded lenses and tripods, you are in luck! For a limited time, Adorama is running a free Tripod with select Nikon lenses promotion. The free tripod depends on which lens you buy. The MeFoto Roadtrip tripod is free with either the Nikkor 14-24/2.8G or the 24-70/2.8G, while the Fotopro X-Go is free with either the 24-70/2.8E or the 70-200/2.8E… So the aforementioned G lenses get the MeFoto while the aforementioned E lenses get the Fotopro…

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: nikon Tagged With: , , , ,

EU: 128GB Sandisk Ultra SDXC for 20 euro

Amazon Germany is back with more Sandisk memory card sales! These are limited time offers but they are not tied to the daily deals [which occur in the German time zone], so the expiration date/time is unknown to me…

We start with the SDXC memory cards, their new condition 128GB Ultra SDXC (C10, UHS-I, up to 80MB/sec) is on sale for just 20 euro. This is sold and shipped by Amazon itself and it is available in your choice of frustration-free packaging or standard packaging. The limit is up to five per customer at the sale price. Not sure if you can buy five of each packaging, or five total.

Next up we move to the microSD cards. The new condition 200GB Ultra microSDXC (A1, C10, U1) goes for 33 euro with up to five per customer. This defeats the 128GB for 23 euro in terms of $/GB. You pay less than 50% more, but you get more than 50% in extra storage…

Or if you can to solve for a lower price, the new condition 128GB Transcend microSDXC (C10, UHS-I) goes for the very specific price of 18.79 euro per customer…

MicroSD is not just for smartphones any more as the number of digital cameras (including a few iLCs eg Panasonic GX800) take the microSD cards. Most of them include full-size SD adapters, or you probably already have a drawer full of them from previous memory card purchases…

February 10, 2019 Filed Under: memory cards and storage Tagged With: ,